I am not new to RAID in the IT world, but never set it up at home. In the next month or two I will be building a new AMD X2 PC using either an Abit or ASUS mobo, one the latest SLI boards which include RAID. I am targeting RAID 1, as I am not that concerned about performance, but very concerned...

I know this isn't the right place for this, but the people in this group really know a lot about this stuff so I'd thought I'd ask here and hope nobody shoots me. I have a 9pin Okidata impact printer on a xp system running excel 2003 for printing invoices on pre-printed forms from an excel...

I paid $200 for a 3 yr old Dell XPS which has 3 GHz cpu, 1 gig memory, and also a very nice video card plus other extras. It was blue screening every now and then and a memtest showed up errors (always in test #6 which is the Moving inversions, 32 bit pattern test). I thought it was almost surely...

Hello, I just installed Civilization 3 Conquest on my Dream PC 2006 and I immediatly noticed the improvement when using DVI... actually I have been noticing it the whole time but this time I especially noticed it ;) The good thing about DVI is that resolution auto-resizing and auto-adjusting is...

looking to build a new PC and am trying to decide on getting an AMD 64 or 64 X2 chip? i know the first is for pure horsepower and the other is for multitasking. any other advantages/disadvantages of one over the other?? i have heard that gaming with the X2 is a little tricky requiring some...

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www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200310/200310.htm#_My_Story I experienced something like this, recently. Isn't this the damnest thing!? It tries my soul to think about how many times this could have been the real problem, or could have been complicating a problem.

Hi, I am going to install an extra hard drive in my computer, it is a Hitachi Deskstar 7K500, which is a 500gig SATA II drive. Will I be able to use it as a 500gb drive or will I need to partition it, or is it better to partition it. Thanks for any advice or help Regards Bob

Anybody else get this hardware update on the Windows Update web site? "CNet Cnet FAST200 Pci Fast Ethernet Adapter" So far, the Hardware Portion of Windows Update has been less than useless. And for some strange reason I get that apparently silly suggestion. I have a Realtek NIC with a higher...

Hi Guys, I am having this problem with my pc. I turn it on, it boots fine until it hits the windows logo (Windowns XP pro) screen, at which point it stays there for the regular few seconds, then the computer restarts itself. It refuses to go to safe mode or to last known good configuration. It...

I want to build a fast computer. I want it fast and reliable. I want to build it from the best cpu, memory and hd. Video card is not important. The computer I want to build is for internet use maily. I am thinking about scsi card or sata which every is faster. I would appreciate if you can give me...

I have this issue where, when I push the power button on my computer, the fans spin up and I hear this clicking noise. The computer does not boot, there is no display, no beeping, nothing. Then, about 30 seconds later, the hard drive spins-up and the computer boots. At first, I tried swapping...

NewEgg only sells boxed Sempron 754 processors meaning they come with an AMD stock fan and heatsink and AMD warranty. Does anyone know if the REFURBISHED Sempron 754 processors come with the AMD heatsink & fan? Was the quality OK? Thanks!

Decided it was time to join the latest and greatest in monitors. Bought a 19" lcd flat panel. :\ Overall not too bad, just different, but played a game of windows solitaire, and the background on face cards was "busy". Hard on the eyes. The video card in this box IIRC is an old nVidia GE force...

Someone gave me this card. It's a few years old, dating from about 2000 I believe. It comes with a 5-1/4 front panel, ct4850, with microphone jacks and regular PC audio jacks, and 4 cds of drivers and software. The card itself looks to be a $10 or so item on ebay. My system is new this year and...

A neighbor installed a Canon printer in an XP system with Comcast broadband cat5'ed to a nic card. With the printer off, all is as usual. Hit the power switch and the internet screeches to a snail's pace. Just like, or even worse than dial-up. Anybody have any ideas on what's causing this?

Hi, I have a Dell Latitude C610 that I just got. Unfortunately it won't turn on. When i power it up, the green LED next to the letter A of the Keyboard Satus LEDs blinks ten times then the laptop shuts off. Does anybody know what this means? Thanks!

With one DVD/CD burner. Is it better to set the added hard drive as a "slave" on the same IDE channel as the existing hard drive or set the DVD/CD burner as a "slave" to one of the hard drives and run the additional hard drive on it's own channel?

I need a good demo for applying Arctic Silver on a HSF. Something with good text details and fancy pictures, one with a movie/swf file if possible. Google queries don't seem to yield many quality results as of yet. thanks,

I solved the problem with my computer thanks to help I found on this newsgroup. My computer kept restarting at radom moments and it turned out that it was in fact the power supply. I had a 500w Allied PS and replaced it with a 480w Antec. That works perfctly now. It was weird because the Allied PS...